The percentage grows with you
A fee on every booking means a busier term costs more. At 3%, a club taking £3,000 in a month pays £90 of it before any subscription. ClubDock takes nothing from a booking.
Comparing club booking software
Most booking software charges you every month, busy or not, and many take a share of every booking as well. ClubDock is free in any month under £500 of sessions, never more than £36, and never takes a penny from a booking. Move the slider to your club's size and see the difference.
Create your club
Free in any month under £500 of sessions. No card needed to start.
- ClubDock£297
- MagicBookingcard fee estimated£1,074.60
- ClassForKids£644.88
- Pebble£948
- Pembee£548.10
- iPAL£731.88
A year: the months you run at the bookings you set, and the rest quiet, with no sessions. ClubDock costs nothing in any month under £500 of sessions; each other provider is kept on one plan, its cheapest over the year, paid every month. Card fees are on the share paid by card, on both sides — every provider here charges its card fee on card payments only, and Pebble its fee on every booking. ClubDock: Stripe's fee on card payments only, at its standard UK rate of 1.5% — paid to Stripe, not ClubDock. Some cards cost more; Tax-Free Childcare and bank transfers cost nothing. Source Fixed amounts per payment — Stripe's 20p, iPAL's 15p — are left out on both sides. Checked 10 October 2026; prices change, so please check before deciding.
How these are worked out
MagicBooking: Clubs Pro at £59 a month plus VAT at 20%, £70.80. Source
MagicBooking, card fees: A fee on every card transaction through its payment gateway, at a rate MagicBooking does not publish. Drawn at 2.5% in total, which is our estimate, not its figure.Estimate Source
ClassForKids: The Year-Round plan's published starting price, £34.99 a month. Source
ClassForKids, card fees: A transaction fee from 2.5%, including Stripe's card fee, on payments taken through it. Source
Pebble: Core at £25 a month and 3% of every booking, or Premium at £35 and 2.5% — whichever is cheaper at that level — with VAT added to the booking fee, as Pebble states it. Source
Why clubs look again at their booking software
A contract that outlasts the reason for it
Some plans run for a full year, and some for up to five. ClubDock has no contract: a month under £500 of sessions costs nothing, so stopping costs nothing.
Paying for months you do not run
A flat monthly fee is the same in August as in October. ClubDock charges by the sessions your club ran in the month, so a holiday club pays for its holidays and a term-time club for its terms.
Built for how clubs and classes run
A term of Tuesdays sold as one booking, a holiday week or a single day, breakfast and after school as separate rows, staff signing children in at the door on a phone, and what each family owes.
What every club gets with ClubDock
Places that cannot be oversold
A place is held the moment a parent puts it in their basket, so two families never book the last space and nobody has to be let down afterwards.
A register built for the door
Staff sign children in and out on a phone, with allergies and medical notes on the row rather than behind a tap, and a collection password one tap away at sign-out.
Parents sort out their own changes
Parents change days and cancel places themselves, inside the notice period you set, and see what your policy means for them before they press anything.
Your families, across in one go
Bring parents and children across from a spreadsheet. ClubDock suggests what each column is, you check it, and one Save brings everyone over.
Xero and QuickBooks, kept in step
Bookings go to your accounts as invoices, and payments recorded there come back, for £6 in a month you use it and nothing in a month you do not.
Everything, in every band
Unlimited children, parents and staff, reports, messages to the families booked on a session and an early bird price — in the free band as much as the busiest.
What the alternatives charge
Booking software in this sector is usually a monthly fee plus a percentage of every booking you take. The percentage is the part that grows: a club turning over £3,000 a month pays around £90 of it before the subscription.
| Software | Monthly | Per booking | Minimum term |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClubDock | £0, £18 or £36, by the month's sessions | Nothing | None |
| MagicBooking | £59 + VAT | Not published (about 2.5%, our estimate) | 1 month notice |
| ClassForKids | From £34.99 | From 2.5% per transaction | None |
| Pebble | £25 (Core) or £35 (Premium) | 3% (Core) or 2.5% (Premium), + VAT | Full year |
| Pembee | £30 (Standard) or £70 (Premium) | 0.59% of online payments on Standard, plus Stripe's fee | None, cancel any time |
| iPAL | £39.99 (1 year) to £29.99 (5 years) | 2.8% + 15p per online payment | 1 to 5 years |
Taken from each provider's own published pricing page and correct as at 10 October 2026. Where a per-booking fee exists but is not published, we have said so rather than estimate it. Prices change — please check before deciding.
ClubDock beside each one
What each costs at your size, where ClubDock stands out, and how to move across.
- ClubDock vs MagicBookingMonthly: £59 + VATPer booking: Not published (about 2.5%, our estimate)
- ClubDock vs ClassForKidsMonthly: From £34.99Per booking: From 2.5% per transaction
- ClubDock vs PebbleMonthly: £25 (Core) or £35 (Premium)Per booking: 3% (Core) or 2.5% (Premium), + VAT
- ClubDock vs PembeeMonthly: £30 (Standard) or £70 (Premium)Per booking: 0.59% of online payments on Standard, plus Stripe's fee
- ClubDock vs iPALMonthly: £39.99 (1 year) to £29.99 (5 years)Per booking: 2.8% + 15p per online payment
See it with your own club
Any month under £500 of sessions is free, then £18 or £36 by the month. Nothing to pay to start, and no contract.